Unusualness vs Outlandishness - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The state or condition of being unusual.
* Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
(countable) Something unusual; an aberration.
The quality of being outlandish.
*{{quote-news, 2009, January 16, Austin Considine, A Return to Kitsch Mountain, New York Times
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Unusualness is a related term of outlandishness.
As nouns the difference between unusualness and outlandishness
is that unusualness is (uncountable) the state or condition of being unusual while outlandishness is the quality of being outlandish.unusualness
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- The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
Synonyms
* remarkablenessoutlandishness
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